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Operation Barbarossa [g] was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. It was the largest and costliest land offensive in human history, with around 10 million combatants taking part, [ 26 ] and over 8 million casualties by the end of the operation.
Be careful about superlatives, that is, until you’re talking about Operation Barbarossa, the surprise German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 and the nearly four years of war that followed on what the Germans called “the Eastern Front.”
23 Ιουν 2016 · A German infantryman walks toward the body of a killed Soviet soldier and a burning BT-7 light tank in Ukraine in 1941, during the early days of Operation Barbarossa. (Image: Deutsches Bundesarchiv/German Federal Archive)
Let us learn the lessons already taught by such cruel experience. Let us redouble our exertions and strike with united strength while life and power remain. View the full text of Winston Churchill's Broadcast on the Soviet-German War delivered on June 22, 1941.
The siege of Leningrad to the north also ended in German defeat in 1944, after 900 terrible days of starvation and bombardment in which about one million people died. The failure of Operation...
I therefore decided today again to lay the fate and future of the German Reich and our people in the hands of our soldiers. May God help us especially in this fight! [New York Times, June 23, 1941] Sources: ibiblio
20 Ιουν 2021 · On Sunday, 22 June 1941, the time had come. At 3:15 a.m. the German army — the Wehrmacht — launched its attack on the Soviet Union . There was no declaration of war, and the Nazi-Soviet Non...
